This is a video of a robotic spy squirrel built by John Downer Productions (previously: some of their other spy animals) capturing the behavior of real squirrels as they attempt to steal each other’s nuts. Did you know that every autumn the average squirrel hides 10,000 nuts, and has such

Because the oceans are probably the best thing that ever happened to earth (humanity ranks dead last), this is a beautiful visualization of the earth’s ocean currents according to NASA’s ECCO (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean) model, developed using data from spacecraft, buoys, and other measurements. Was

This is a video from the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which studies wolf behavior in Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota, of a rock that was intentionally sprayed with skunk essence (eau de La Pew) in order to get passing wolves to stop in front of the trail cam. It works

Because humanity is, by nature, complete garbage, the flightless dodo bird has the distinction of being the first known species to be completely extinguishing by human activity (hunting, habitat destruction, introduction of predators). The species was discovered and extinct in less than 80 years. Go us! In this clip from

Seen here looking like something a child would produce if you asked them to draw a nightmare, this is a video of a rarely seen humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) spotted in shallow waters off Spain’s Canary Islands. The fish typically lives some 1,500m (~1 mile) deep in the pitch-blackness, but

This is a short video of some intrepid spelunkers who discovered a bunch of crystals growing in a cave that, when stroked, sound like a harp. That’s something. Something you probably shouldn’t be touching because you just summoned a balrog. Hope you brought a wizard! @cave.chronicles Magical Crystal Sounds ♬

Because Mother Nature is totally nuts (she tried showing her b00bs once but I declined BECAUSE I WAS AT DINNER WITH MY PARENTS), this is a video featuring the sound of 500,000 king penguins doing their thing on South Georgia Island, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was captured

Seen here catching a ride on a jellyfish because work smarter, not harder, this is an incredibly informative video from Bizarre Beasts detailing the evolutionary development of the argonaut, the only octopus with a shell, and the only one that lives in the open ocean, unlike the rest of its